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Art, Framed Prints, I love Lucy Props, Utrillo

Utrilllo Print from Night of the Living Dead 1968 offered on eBay

Utrillo print over the fireplace in Night of the Living Dead 1968
Utrillo print over the fireplace in Night of the Living Dead 1968

This Maurice Utrillo lithograph print entitled Restaurant Au Mont Cenis (1922) is like the one seen on I Love Lucy in the Ricardo’s livingroom, except it appears to be a smaller sized print. It is offered as an original item from the movie Night of the Living Dead (1968) at http://www.ebay.com/itm/Night-Of-The-Living-Dead-Framed-Maurice-Utrillo-Movie-Prop-Horror-Home-theater-/131957171297
The print on I Love Lucy was 26″ x 21″ and the smaller print image size is usually seen at around 11″ x 14″ unframed.
Details of the print from I Love Lucy in this post:
http://www.50slucy.com/i-love-lucy-prop-utrillo-painting-print.html
Note: There are a couple of other prints of this picture on ebay at present – one has water damage, another one looks darker in color than is usual and is overpriced in comparison with others sold recently. Continue reading Utrilllo Print from Night of the Living Dead 1968 offered on eBay →

Art, Utrillo

Utrillo Print

Urtillo on eBay
Urtillo on eBay

Seen on ebay this rarely seen NYGS print like the one on I Love Lucy http://www.ebay.com/itm/Maurice-Utrillo-1883-1955-First-Edition-Print-by-NYGS-Well-Framed-Very-French-/252318239542

Utrillo picture on bedroom wall on I love Lucy
Utrillo picture on bedroom wall on I love Lucy

A framed print of this 1922  scene by French artist Utrillo was usually seen on the back wall of the Ricardo’s livingroom on I Love Lucy.  However I spotted it on the bedroom wall in the same ornate frame in at least one episode as seen on the above screen grab.


Typically it is seen on the living room wall.

Art, Framed Prints, I love Lucy Props, Mid-century, Utrillo

Vintage Utrillo Print like Lucy’s offered on eBay

Vintage Utrillo print as seen on I Love Lucy
Vintage Utrillo print as seen on I Love Lucy available on eBay this week – click picture to go to the listing

The original vintage print reproduction of  a  1922 Maurice Utrillo lithograph is offered on eBay this week. I have only seen a few of these on offer since I started this blog so we may not see another like it for some time.

Utrillo print on I Love Lucy
Utrillo print on I Love Lucy

Read more about the original print on the show in my previous post:
http://www.50slucy.com/i-love-lucy-prop-utrillo-painting-print.html

Art, Framed Prints, Switzerland

Lucy in the Swiss Alps: Walther von Klingen Print

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Medieval framed print in the Ricardo’s Lucerne hotel room

On the wall in the Ricardo’s room in Lucerne there is a framed Medieval print from the Codex_Manesse of Walther von Klingen

Walther von Klingen from Codex_Manesse
Codex Manesse, UB Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 52r: Walther von Klingen

Walther von Klingen AKA: “Count Walter III of Altenklingen”
Birthdate: circa 1220
Birthplace: Altenklingen, Thurgau, Switzerland
Death: Died March 1, 1286 in Altenklingen, Thurgau, Switzerland
He was a Minstrel and author of songs in the Codex. The Codex Manesse,  is a medieval songbook, the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German Minnesang poetry, written and illustrated between ca. 1304 when the main part was completed, and ca. 1340 with the addenda.The codex was produced in Zürich, for the Manesse family.

The manuscript is “the most beautifully illumined German manuscript in centuries;” its 137 miniatures are a series of “portraits” depicting each poet. ( Source Wikipedia)

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Art, Framed Prints, Monte Carlo

Lucy goes to Monte Carlo: Watteau Painting Print

Festival of Love Jean Antoine Watteau
Monte Carlo Hotel set: Framed print of Festival of Love by Jean Antoine Watteau

An ornate framed print of The Feast (or Festival) of Love by Jean-Antoine Watteau is seen in the set of the Monte Carlo hotel on I Love Lucy.

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The Feast (or Festival) of Love (1718 – 1719) Oil on canvas, 61 x 75 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

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50s Retro, Art, Ethel Mertz, Figurines, Florence Ceramics, Framed Prints, Monte Carlo

The Mertzes in Monte Carlo: Nicholas Lancret Framed Print

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Ethel and Fred Mertz in their Monte Carlo room

On the wall of the Mertzes Monte Carlo hotel room is a well known Nicholas Lancret framed print called La Camargo Dancing. Also seen on the chest of drawers beside the door is a figurine we saw in the Mertzes Connecticut home in another I Love Lucy episode. A figurine of a colonial lady, Florence Ceramics “Charmaine”.

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Nicholas Lancret La Camargo Dancing Nicolas Lancret – La Camargo – c.1730, oil on canvas Washington, National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon Collection – © Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

The woman dancing in the painting is Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo a famous French/Belgian ballet dancer known as La Camargo. She was first woman to execute the entrechat quatre,  the first dancer to wear slippers instead of heeled shoes, and also first to wear the shorter calf-length ballet skirt and the now standard ballet tights.

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Art, Framed Prints, I love Lucy Props, Mid-century, Utrillo

Update: Utrillo Print

Vintage prints of the 1922 Utrillo picture seen on I Love Lucy seem to be quite rare. There is one on offer online  CLICK HERE to see it – still available as of Oct 9 2015 – I don’t know the size.utrillo

Read more about the  picture in my previous post:

http://www.50slucy.com/i-love-lucy-prop-utrillo-painting-print.html

50s Retro, Art, Framed Prints, I love Lucy Props, Margo Alexander, Mid-century

Margo Alexander print on I Love Lucy

Margo Alexander Framed Picture in The Ricardo's Apartment
Margo Alexander Framed Picture in The Ricardo’s Apartment
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Margo Alexander Studio Print


Here is another Margo Alexander print seen on the I Love Lucy set. This one is seen in the early episodes as one of three landscape prints on the back wall of the living room set. Later, after the Ricardo’s move to the bigger apartment it can occasionally be seen above the mantel alcove over the livingroom fireplace, as seen in the publicity picture below

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Here we see the Margo Alexander picture indicated by an arrow  uppermost above the fireplace. Below it are a pair of E Melvin Bolstad prints we looked at in this post.
More about Margo Alexander in this earlier post Here.

Find Margo Alexander on eBay

Art, Framed Prints, I love Lucy Props, Utrillo

Vintage copy of Utrillo Painting

Maurice Utrillo inspired Painting 12" x 16" on artists board
Maurice Utrillo inspired Painting 12″ x 16″ on artists board

On eBay currently is a vintage painting that appears to  be copy of Utrillo’s painting  “Restaurant au Mont Cenis” even including the signature. I Love Lucy fans will recognize the scene from the Utrillo Print of the same name that hung on the wall of the Ricardo’s livingroom. Click on the picture above to see the item on eBay.
Read more about the original Utrillo prop print from the show here